Story here. Excerpt:

'A 20-year-old woman who cried rape against a man she dragged into a public toilet for sex has been told she faces jail.
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Just over a week after making the allegations, she contacted the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, hoping to claim up to £7,500.

But she was found guilty by a jury at Basildon Crown Court in May of perverting the course of justice.
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Giving evidence during the trial, Mr Bowers told the court how he had met Hilliard at a nightclub and they walked to the station. He said once they reached the station toilets, she dragged him into a cubicle and had sex with him on a toilet seat.

Afterwards she told him, he 'better be there for the baby' if she was pregnant.
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Detectives found CCTV footage from the nightspot of Hilliard and Mr Bowers kissing and holding hands before leaving.

Story here. Wonder what today's chorus of rationalizations will sound like? Excerpt:

'HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. (CBS) ― Police say an intoxicated Long Island woman, driving with her 6-year-old son in her vehicle, injured a teenager on a bicycle.

Southampton Town Police say Caroline Goss was charged with driving while intoxicated, endangering the welfare of a minor, and having an open container of alcohol in her vehicle.

She was ordered held on $20,000 bail Thursday at her arraignment in town court. The name of her attorney was not immediately on record.'

The MRA issue with these stories is not that a woman is caught DUI with a kid/kids in her car and that she got someone hurt or killed. Men do that, too. The MRA issue is how the law deals with male perps vs. how it deals with female ones, and also how the public and press react when the offender is female rather than male.

This week, I'm going to be doing a piece at The DV Examiner on #FollowFriday and I'm hoping to collect as many movement people and organizations who are on Twitter as I can. (More on #FollowFriday here.) This will be a great chance to establish some followers, if you're new to Twitter, or get some more. I've found Twitter to be an invaluable source of news & info, not to mention a nearly painless way of reaching out to a whole new group of people who may not be aware of the issues.

Early next week, I'll be doing the same with Facebook.

Right now I've only got a couple of people on either one, and I need a LOT more to make this beneficial for everybody.

Thanks!

Trudy W. Schuett
Arizona Rural Headlines Examiner
Domestic Violence Examiner

http://twitter.com/trudywschuett

Article here. Excerpt:

'It's hard to know why, exactly, Harriet Harman's stint in charge while Gordon Brown is on holiday has provoked so much leery humour among male commentators. Is it because she is, as the niece of Lord Longford and a distant cousin of David Cameron, unspeakably posh? Or because she is a feminist, which, let's face it, is just unspeakable?
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It goes with the turf for politicians, both male and female, to be caricatured and lampooned: Harman is uncomplaining and unrepentant. Good for her: why should she pipe down?
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There is precious little danger of too much feminism seeping into British business or society in general – the problem is the opposite: there is not nearly enough.
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Story here.

'A 24-year-old Orange County woman was sentenced today to community service for having a sexual relationship with a male high school student, prosecutors said.

Hope Ashley Jacoby, of San Juan Capistrano, pleaded guilty earlier this month to four felony counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and three felony counts of oral copulation of a minor. Orange County Superior Court Judge Gregory Jones reduced the felonies to misdemeanors and sentenced Jacoby to 240 hours of community service over the objections of prosecutors.

The sexual relationship between Jacoby and the male student started in 2008 when he was 16 and lasted about one year. She met him while working as an athletic trainer at Tustin High School, prosecutors said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Lisa Glide, a former Old Bridge High School drama teacher who pleaded guilty to having a four-month sexual relationship with a student, was sentenced Monday to five years' probation. She should have received at least a portion of the 364-day jail sentence recommended by the prosecutor.

Superior Court Judge Frederick DeVesa said he didn't think incarceration was appropriate, citing the physical illness and depression that Glide, 35, of Howell was struggling with when the affair with a 17-year-old student took place. DeVesa also gave weight to a letter he received from the former student, now entering his sophomore year in college, who said he was "clearly not a young child" and that he was "the initiator of the contact, not Lisa Glide."

Letter here. Excerpt:

'RECENT reports that there will be no more male teachers in 20 years’ time is a grave concern to the country.

In the 60s when I joined the teaching profession, we were fired with a sense of commitment, dedication and passion, and it was a vocation, but not anymore.

As accurately pointed out by my fellow teachers, now one enters the teaching profession only when one cannot find other jobs – a sad reflection on a profession that was once revered.

The current ratio of 72 females to 28 males for every 100 teachers is indeed a disturbing trend for the country’s education system. Why has the teaching profession become so unattractive to males?'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Why the downward trend in male teaching? According to Bryan Nelson, founder of MenTeach, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recruiting male teachers, research suggests three key reasons for the shortage of male teachers: low status and pay, the perception that teaching is "women's work," and the fear of accusation of child abuse.

"There's a lack of support for male teachers, a lack of respect, and a lack of being able to be involved in decision-making," says Reg Weaver, president of the National Education Association (NEA). "And I can't say it's getting better."

Low salary levels have also proved to be a deterrent, especially for those men who value being the breadwinners of the family. The average U.S. public school teacher salary for 2005-2006 was $49,026, according to the NEA. "There's a long-entrenched idea that males are supposed to make lots of money and be a big-time breadwinner," Brown says. "But teaching won't make anyone rich."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'An Abbotsford woman has been charged with public mischief after she created a frenzy by falsely reporting a man broke into her apartment then attacked and assaulted her two weeks ago, Abbotsford police said.

After skeptical police confronted Tammi Zall, 22, with some evidence gathered, she admitted she made up the story, police said in a news release on Wednesday.

After Zall called 911 on July 29, police had deployed officers and a K9 unit to search the area, and crime detectives and forensic identification unit members investigated.

Police issued a news release with a description of the supposed suspect and warned residents to lock their doors and windows. Several residents called and e-mailed, concerned the "balcony rapist" was at large, police said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Has your better half become the bitter half of your life? Are you a tortured husband, falsely booked into a dowry case or under domestic violence act and there is no one to pay heed to your side of the story?
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Man Cell or Patni Atyaachar Virodhi Morcha (PAVM) is an organisation working for the cause of harassed husbands. Man Cell, which was established in 1982 by R P Chugh, a Supreme Court advocate and president of Man Cell, has branches at many places all over the country. He himself has been a victim of women since his childhood and campaigns against the anti dowry legislations, specially section 498-A of IPC and the Domestic Violence Act, as he feels that these laws are biased and violate basic human right of equality before law. Man Cell believes that there is no use of making new laws as existing laws are sufficient. He feels, there is a need to amend such existing laws as they only speak of the harassment of women and not of men.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'CHENNAI: Women cheered and men looked up with awe and envy as the Ladies Special chugged out of the Tambaram station in all pomp and glory on Wednesday. For women, the induction of this special train has come as a blessing to provide them a little relief from the peak hour rush. While women extend their heart-felt thanks to the railways; the introduction of women’s only trains did not go down well with many a man.

Kumudam, a 25-year-old school teacher was all praise for this initiative of the railways. “This special train will prove to be a boon to women, who have to take the train during peak hours. We don’t have to worry about starring and ‘accidental’ bumping,” she said.

Letter here, written by an unnamed female Labor party MP. Excerpt:

'IT is with a heavy heart that I write to the Barry & District News to oppose the policy that has been forced upon the Vale of Glamorgan Constituency Labour Party, to select its next Parliamentary candidate from a women-only shortlist.

I know there is a silent majority of local Labour party members who would oppose the imposition of a women-only shortlist for the selection of our candidate to replace John Smith MP.

It is what I can only describe as bullying tactics from the national executive, which forced the local party to succumb to this policy.

The polls indicate the fight to return a Labour MP for the Vale of Glamorgan will be extremely difficult.'

Video report here. Article here. Excerpt:

'Home videos show 5-year-old Liam McCarty horsing around with his father, his blond curls bouncing around a cherubic face.

It's a face his father, Michael McCarty, hasn't seen in months.

Liam, an American citizen, was placed into the custody of an Italian orphanage this spring after his mother, Manuela McCarty, fled to her native Italy with the child in the middle of a custody dispute with Michael McCarty.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino told police he had sex with a woman accused of trying to extort him of $10 million and later paid for her abortion, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported on its Web site that Pitino told police he had been drinking in a Louisville restaurant and had consensual sex with Karen Sypher in August 2003. The police report said the 56-year-old coach denied allegations by Sypher that he raped her after the restaurant closed and at another time somewhere else. He said he later gave her $3,000 for an abortion.

Sypher reported the rape allegations to police last month, but a Kentucky prosecutor said the complaint wouldn't be prosecuted because it lacked supporting evidence. Sypher, 49, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of lying to the FBI and trying to extort money from Pitino, who is married.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'As first reported Tuesday on tulsaworld.com, Vicki Rae Smith, 50, who was recently reassigned from her post as principal at Houston Elementary School, is charged in Tulsa County District Court with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Officers with the TPS campus police department reported that on April 2, Smith encouraged a 10-year-old boy and an 11-year-old boy "to become delinquent children by engaging in the offense of assault and battery."

Smith is accused of removing one boy from class to fight the other boy in a school hallway and not intervening "until she noticed that the fight was being observed by two visitors at the school," according to a police affidavit filed in court.

Records indicate that Smith was booked into the Tulsa Jail about 10 a.m. Tuesday and was released on a $1,000 bond about an hour later.'